The Big Bang Theory"The Pancake Batter Anomaly"
Original Air Date: March 31, 2008
Theresa - TwoCents Reviewer
Penny returns from a trip to visit her family and Nebraska and mentions that everyone was sick while she was there. Sheldon, a germaphobe, freaks out and starts to experiment to find pathogens. He wakes up sick the next morning and Leonard rushes out before he's stuck taking care of him. Sheldon is so notorious for his needy, dramatic behavior when sick that the other guys have protocols and code-words to plan their escapes.
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Original Air Date: March 31, 2008
Theresa - TwoCents Reviewer
Penny returns from a trip to visit her family and Nebraska and mentions that everyone was sick while she was there. Sheldon, a germaphobe, freaks out and starts to experiment to find pathogens. He wakes up sick the next morning and Leonard rushes out before he's stuck taking care of him. Sheldon is so notorious for his needy, dramatic behavior when sick that the other guys have protocols and code-words to plan their escapes.
Instead, Sheldon ends up at The Cheesecake Factory for soup, where Penny serves him. She calls Leonard, who is with Howard and Raj at an all-day Planet of the Apes marathon, and asks him to pick up Sheldon, but he makes an excuse and hangs up. Penny goes back to the apartment where Sheldon guilts her into caring for him (rubbing VapoRub on his chest, singing him lullabies).
At the movies, Leonard breaks his glasses and is forced to sneak into the apartment, on his hands and knees with sensors and cameras, to get his spare pair. Penny catches him and bails, leaving Leonard. Trying to flee while temporarily blind, he crashes into a beam in the apartment and the show ends with the ailing roommates on the couch together, Sheldon still whining to be tended to.
Theresa's TwoCents:
Not a whole lot went on in this episode. In fact, despite a few laugh-out-loud moments, there was almost no plot. But hey, it worked for Seinfeld. And the episode was worth watching just for Howard's hilarious exchange with and imitation of his mother.
The episode's name comes from a (sort of) running joke that Sheldon has receptacles for all sorts of bodily fluids involved in his self-experiments. Mentioned are a Tupperware container for vomit, a turkey baster for extracting mucus, and a measuring cup for urine, the last of which Leonard had used unknowingly for mixing pancake batter.
Best Lines:
Sheldon, beating Leonard at 3-dimensional chess: "It must be humbling to suck on so many different levels."
Leonard: "You had time to make a label for everything in this apartment, including the labelmaker, but you didn't have ten seconds to make one that said 'Urine Cup'?!"
Sheldon (deadpan): "It's right here on the bottom."
It was pretty funny when Howard was imitating his mother. He did an excellent job imitating Raj when he was to meet the girl the family wanted to have him marry..remember? Love this show. The guy who plays Sheldon needs to be nominated for an award, in my opinion.
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